IP SLA with loopback

[Rizwan Khan]

Hi all,

I am facing issue with using IP SLA, i am given a project in office and need to implement policy based routing,

for some reasons i want to use loopback for it.

I have 2 routers A and B

i just want if traffic from 216.0 network comes on A set next hop to routers B looback interface. Can i do it? its working fine with physical interfaces but not with loop back. This loop back is reacible and from router A if i telnet the loopback IP of B it actually gets me to Router B as well. PLease i need urgent advise. Thanks in advance.

[Simon Brooks · Accepted solution]

Show me your ip route commands as well as the interface configs pls. My guess is you need a recursive route to point anything destined for the loopback to the actual next hop. The loopback wont be the next hop will it. Its actually 2 hops away!

I need to see the point to point interface configs. The loopback config and the ip route statements but I suspect im correct


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[Rizwan Khan]

Hi simon,

Yeah you are absolutely right that was the actual problem, it was not setting nexthop cause that loopback in not directly connected. Thank you so much.

[Simon Brooks]

You're welcome.


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